9 Let me listen, now, to the voice of the Lord God; it is a message of peace he sends to his people; to his loyal servants, that come back, now, with all their heart to him. 10 For us, his worshippers, deliverance is close at hand; in this land of ours, the divine glory is to find a home. 11 See, where mercy and faithfulness meet in one; how justice and peace are united in one embrace! 12 Faithfulness grows up out of the earth, and from heaven, redress looks down.[1] 13 The Lord, now, will grant us his blessing, to make our land yield its harvest; 14 justice will go on before him, deliverance follow where his feet tread.

[1] vv. 11, 12. These verses perhaps imply that God’s fidelity to his promises and God’s mercy have combined to restore the Jewish people; that his justice, satisfied with the expiation of their sins, no longer grudges them peace and well-being; that loyalty to the old covenant is once more a native growth in the land of Israel, and that God looks down to reward it. But the picture may be a more general one.